Scott Swann Email & Phone Number

Dundonald, Gb

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

* Ansible Subject Matter Expert: wrote a module for Ansible to integrate with an internal Content Management Database to provide Dynamic Inventory to Ansible Playbooks, wrote several modules to integrate with internal products to improve automation processes.* Rolled out Event Based Orchestration usin Helm and Kubernetes: to provide automated self-healing of internal infrastructure to reduce load on On Call SREs* On Call SRE* Wrote several audit scripts to preemptively address indenity issues in infrastructure and remediate them before they caused impact.

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Contributor on https://github.com/StackStorm, made several PRs to improve functionality and security.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

● Commissioned various pre-IMS telecom networks for several Tier 2/3telecom operators in the United States in a mix of Baremetal Systemsand on VMware● Help delivered the implementation of STIR/SHAKEN at a major Tier 1operator in the United States deployed in Openstack● Help delivered the implementation of a Border Gateway ControlFunction (BGCF) as part of a Next Generation IMS system moving fromlegacy hardware at a major Tier 1 operator in Germany.● In the delivery of the above BGCF Project, I had experience with thefollowing infrastructure systems / tools○ Tooling to define the network infrastructure asInfrastructure-as-Code / VNFDs, and the application togenerate boot-config (cloud-init) and declarative configurationfor Day-1 Service Configuration from this IaC.○ Building Docker containers to package this tooling so it can beused in GitLab CI/CD○ Experience with troubleshooting Kubernetes pods / systems,which is used to package our software into VMs.○ Writing Ansible Playbooks to help automate other aspects ofconfiguring the system not covered by VNF instantiation.○ GitLab CI/CD Pipelines to help deliver software.● Automated many aspects of the projects I worked on to help in thestreamlining in the delivery of these projects.● Experience with using a VNFM to deploy VNFs to Openstack privateClouds and writing the solution definitions / VNF descriptors(proprietary format) used to define VNFs deployed using the VNFM● Providing informal mentoring to colleagues in areas that I haveexpertise on.

Belfast, United Kingdom